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Elon Musk is brilliant. And a LEGAL immigrant. I’m a fan; not too many visionaries in the technical arts these days. I wonder what he comes up with next.


15 posted on 04/18/2014 3:10:30 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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McDonnell Douglas did the same thing nearly 20 years ago with the Delta Clipper/ DC-X program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

The difference being that the Delta Clipper was supposed to be a SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) rocket, where the Space-X is only recovering the boosters used to put the capsule into orbit.

19 posted on 04/18/2014 5:42:53 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SueRae
Elon Musk is brilliant. And a LEGAL immigrant. I’m a fan; not too many visionaries in the technical arts these days. I wonder what he comes up with next.

And he's a genuine African-American.

I recently found out that he kind of started by SpaceX by accident. He wanted to use his Paypal money to do a couple of demo launches, like sending a tiny amount of cargo to Mars. He was going to buy old Soviet ICBM's, but the Russians tried to screw him so he started his own company.

22 posted on 04/18/2014 6:38:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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